A pop-up coffee shop. Built in a shipping container. Placed in a parking lot. The main requirement was to create a smoking corner outside an office building for the employees. The area allocated for this space was the parking lot of the building. We wanted to create a covered yet open space that could be used not only by the smokers but also by other employees for a coffee break.This is why we f..
Co-working company WeWork is opening a gym in New York, which includes boxing and yoga studios, grassy flooring and a Roman-inspired salt bathing pool. WeWork, which rents desks and office spaces around the world, has added the Rise by We gym to its FiDi office space at 85 Broad Street, in New York's Financial District. However, users do not have to be WeWork members for access. Designed in-hous..
As any big town, Moscow has its fair share of hidden gems. Tucked away in a little courtyard just off Ulitsa Petrovka, a busy thoroughfare in the city’s Tverskaya district lined with prestigious boutiques, restaurants and offices, a quirky cocktail bar has opened its doors. Interestingly, it doesn’t specifically cater to the well-heeled that prance around the area, but instead pulls a young but ..
Setter Architects designed the new offices of GE Healthcare, located in Haifa, Israel. GE Healthcare engages in research and development of medical imaging via MRI/CT. We launched our design process by analyzing what the company does and seeing how we could reflect it in architectural terms. Our overarching aspiration was to celebrate GE Healthcare’s uniqueness, and to identify the point where a..
Porto에 기반을 둔 depA Architects는 포르투갈 북동부의 Pinhel시에서 위치한 노후 주택을 카페와 레스토랑으로 변모시켰다. Entre Portas는 역사적 중심부의 중심부에 위치하고 있는데 오래되고 어두운 원래 집에서, 단단한 화강암 경계 벽과 선택적 철거 프로세스와 함께 새로운 유체와 밝은 실내 공간을 만든 목조 지붕 구조를 활용하기로 했다. 노출된 암벽에서 콘크리트를 더해 공간과 공공 / 서비스 회로 및 지역을 조직했다. 결과적으로 공간 전체에 단단한 암석과 콘크리트 텍스처 및 색상이 목재의 따뜻함과 균형을 이루어 새로운 역사적 중심지의 미학을 표현한다. Porto-based collective depA Architects transformed an old Portuguese hou..
Lievito is designed as a place to meet, to share and to taste. A new restaurant for socializing while sharing slices of gourmet pizza and enjoying a glass of wine in a space defined by grey stone volumes and brass details. The property venue is a long strip that stretches from a lobby of a hotel on the south side to a big opening on the north side, facing a river. Along this stretch the design c..
It’s the first time ever that Bologna has appeared on our radar, and it’s for a good reason. Nestled deep in the historic heart of this Italian city, a recently opened, splendorous retail space raises the bar in luxury shopping for the entire Emilia Romagna region and beyond. It’s called FR boutique, and is a collab effort of Folli Follie and Ratti, two family-run businesses that have dominated ..
Interior Design Laboratorium have recently completed BON BON Fait Maison, a unique small ‘gourmet fast food’ cafe that’s located on the island of Kythira in Greece. The white building, which dates back to the 1860s, was refurbished with the help of the local architectural firm m3kythira. from contemporist
This is a plan of a hair salon located in Tanimachi 6-chome, Osaka, at the top of a narrow alley (about 50 meters long) in which there are many old wooden houses. Run by a female owner herself, it is simply composed of a styling station and a shampoo booth.Since the salon is a one-to-one private space between the hair stylist and customer, she requested to design it for customers to move freely ..
Linehouse was commissioned to design the second store for streetwear retailer ALL SH, to create a completely different identity from the first store. The 20 sqm store is located in a design community with a large shop frontage. Responding to the urban nature of the store location, Linehouse created a curved stainless steel installation which operates as a retail system on the interior, as well a..
